I'd sort of grown up with his music because my parents were both keen on him and stuff from 'Various Positions' is some of the earliest music I remember hearing. Then they played 'I'm Your Man' for more or less the whole of 1988 and so as an eight year old my favourite song in the world was the slightly inappropriate 'Everybody Knows'. When 'The Future' came out in 1992 or '93 or whenever it was, my mother apparently used to cough loudly over the mentions of anal sex. But I got into his music properly, as opposed to by proxy, when I was on a cross-country train (vertically, so that's a long journey) and had nothing to listen to except 'I'm Your Man', and so listed to it twelve times in a row. You'd think it would've turned me off, but it didn't.